Example sentences of "i [conj] [pron] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're either for me or you 're against me , you ca n't be neutral . |
| 2 | but you 're on about something else , you said the first thing I 'd do , that 's got nothing to do with Harold Wilson the first thing I if I were in power |
| 3 | Yet if I reflect upon what happened , in what some might call an existential manner , or attempt what physicists might call a ‘ thought experiment ’ to reconstruct my situation , I can see myself as having been assailed by various impulses : to assist the dog and stop the car , to comfort the children , to drive on lest I and they were to be injured in an accident , to avoid the horror of confronting a demented animal . |
| 4 | Oh no do n't do it with spit , saliva that you 're spitting to the boots you have to have water buckets of water and polish to do it I and they were up the stairs doing the boots on the grey carpet in the back bedroom and they had newspaper down |
| 5 | Yes cos I when I was with B P for six years , a non-contributory pension scheme , I lost every you know |
| 6 | erm it seems to me that they are among the most important , most serious , novels that have ever been written anywhere . |
| 7 | I thought you told me that everything is in the end political ? |
| 8 | Telling me that everything was under control . |
| 9 | Following a very rough crossing from Portsmouth during which I slept very little it dawned on me that we were on our own in a Renault van which was half a ton overweight , had a top speed of 60 mph , an up-hill speed of 40 mph provided you had a run at it , jumped out of fourth gear unless you held it in position and we had 1850 miles to go ! |
| 10 | That does n't immediately occur to me that it 's for blind people |
| 11 | But one old boy over in B Wing was telling me that it 's like a fucking maze down there . |
| 12 | It comes in the evening after a busy day and tells me that it is past my bed-time . |
| 13 | One TDC guard remarked to me that it is like fibre in the diet . |
| 14 | Since then , four telephone calls and two letters have failed to elicit from the sheriff officers the basis of this arrestment , beyond informing me that it was for a sum of £50.59 , but without specifying why or how this sum was allegedly due . |
| 15 | that intrigued me because it did n't seem to me that it was to be eligible |
| 16 | They told me that it was of no use to me any more and that I 'd be better off letting them have it . |
| 17 | Ellen Orford in the poem is a middle-aged woman and it was fortuitous for me that I was about the right age — it 's not a part for a young soprano . |
| 18 | Not until I arrived on the 18th tee 1-down did it suddenly occur to me that I was on the point of losing . |
| 19 | I remember many occasions when friends would reassure me that I was like them , there were n't any differences . |
| 20 | I hardly knew how I was able to face it , either then or at any other time of my life in this mocking world , but I did , though it did not seem to me that I was in any way heroic — just the opposite , in fact . |
| 21 | It proved to me that I was in earnest , that I was truly resolved . |
| 22 | It did n't occur to me that I was in labour because it was too early . |
| 23 | She says Chris , that 's her in office , she 's told me that I 'm off the subsidy now , she says I 've been on it twelve week and er |
| 24 | Anyway , I learn quickly ; it showed me that I 'm on my own — my dear parents , bless them , are simply too pure and innocent to see what is so obvious to me . |
| 25 | All this mental harassment has affected me so much that my doctor has warned me that I 'm of the edge of a nervous breakdown . |
| 26 | His Mother tells me that he is of a mechanical turn , and I know that he has made some progress in mathematics . |
| 27 | However , before the latter can happen ( assuming for the moment that it is a desirable objective ) , it would seem to me that there are at least two major obstacles that must be overcome . |
| 28 | To convince me that you are in fact the sweet , simple little soul you 'd have everyone believe ? ’ |
| 29 | Could n't you have come to me and told me that you were in debt , that you needed money ? |
| 30 | actually no that was the night she was really pissed off because erm people were paying more attention to me than they were to her , I do n't know why , it 's because I decide that I 'm gon na be really outgoing and I really do and I was really loud and really boisterous and she 's quite resigned like that and she thought I sh bit shagged off with me and then like I was doing , there was this really good looking bloke and he was like we , we 'd given each other eyes over the bar in this pub and Lottie goes well if you do n't hurry up with him I 'm gon na go and have him , if you do n't hurry up , you know , and just like marched over I said Charlotte give me a break |